Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, anything that can't go wrong will go wrong anyway.
Anonymous
One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
Alan J. Perlis
Whereas Europeans generally pronounce my name the right way ('Nick-louse Veert'), Americans invariably mangle it into 'Nickel's Worth.' This is to say that Europeans call me by name, but Americans call me by value.
Niklaus Wirth
Computation has made the tree flower.
Alan J. Perlis
Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.
Keith Bostic
Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution set rather than the problem set?
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Confidence, n.: The feeling you have before you understand the situation.
Anonymous
It seems to me you can program with discipline or you can program with bondage and discipline. You can't avoid the discipline either way, but bondage appeals to some people.
Patrick Logan
Perhaps if we wrote programs from childhood on, as adults we'd be able to read them.
Alan J. Perlis
I’ve finally learned what ‘upward compatible’ means. It means we get to keep all our old mistakes.
Dennie van Tassel